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Juno

lightly and surely not a topic that one could conceive of as being used as the foundation of a comedy film that would actually rec...

Popular Culture of 1950s America

not something that sprung up in the 1990s or 1980s. Yes, it is a 1950s phenomenon ("Film History of the 1950s"). McDonalds was fra...

Mis-En-Scene Analysis, Mildred Pierce

an afternoon off and a swim. At the beach house, the first camera shot has Monte showing a closet full of bathing suits (Dirks)....

Family in A Raisin in the Sun and American Beauty

kind of money people like Lester makes. He has all these schemes and dreams and he ultimately learns they are pointless, just as L...

“Antz” & Emile Durkheim

labor. Rather than being totally dependent on custom, these societies are held together primarily through mutual obligation betwee...

Three American Families

someone was sick, or out of a job, or when things were going wrong, they asked God for help (Rodriguez). At home, "God the Father ...

1940s Black Cinema

fell considerably short of avoiding stereotypes. For example, one review, that is typical of those produced by white critics, de...

Hitchcock’s Auteur Vision: “Rear Window”

they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. In The Birds, for instance, Melanie (Tippi Hedren) pursues Mitch (Rod Taylor), a m...

Editing and Narrative

are used to match up, such as a person getting out of a chair and then being shown form a different angle entering a room. The use...

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, A Review

This 3 page paper gives an example of a film review. This paper includes a review of the play called Who's Afraid of Virginia Wool...

Good Morning: Vietnam: Scene Analysis

This paper discusses 2 scenes from the film "Good Morning, America" and offers summation and analysis. Three pages in length, thre...

Saints and Soldiers, A Discussion

This essay pertains to "Saints and Soldiers," a 2003 film directed by Ryan Little. The writer provides a brief summary of the plot...

Film Techniques, Citizen Kane (1941)

This essay offers a description of film techniques used in "Citizen Kane," directed by and starring Orson Welles. Three pages in l...

Enlightenment Ideals in Two Films

This essay pertains to "V for Vendetta" and "Children of Men" and provides a discussion of how both films support Enlightenment i...

Humanity's Future, Science Fiction Visions

This essay pertains to the novel "Dawn" by Octavia Butler and the films "District 9" and "The Omega Man," and argues that each of ...

Disruption and Children Underground: Film Reviews

This 4 page paper gives a review of the films Disruption and Children Underground. This paper includes both the cultural language ...

Paranoid Schizophrenia in A Beautiful Mind

Clinical facts are contrasted to the film depiction of mental illness. There are four sources in this five page paper....

Chinese Cinema in the early 2000's

This 4 page paper gives an overview of the Chinese cinema from 2000-2007. This paper includes four different film from China and t...

Director Chris Marker

This paper discusses the work of French film director Chris Marker. The writer address his cinematic style, his topics and his psy...

A Mirror on Society: Dardenne Brothers

This essay offers an overview of a number of films by Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. Eight pages in length, eight ...

"Troy" (2004) and Homer's Iliad

This essay discusses Homer's ancient classic epic, The Iliad, and the film Troy (2004, directed by William Petersen), indicating ...

Anomies According to Emile Durkheim and Robert Merton

This paper discusses typology of individual adaptations as is evidenced in the 1999 film American Beauty. There are two sources i...

A Futuristic Dystopia, Gattaca

This paper pertains to the film "Gattaca" (1997), and the manner in which it portrays a dystopian society. Three pages in length, ...

Stage Beauty (2004), a review

This essay presents a film review of "Stage Beauty" (2004, directed by Richard Eyre). Three pages in length, no sources are cited....

Symbolic Interaction and Antwone Fisher

This paper pertains to the film "Antwone Fisher" and how it can be viewed from a symbolic interactionism perspective. Five pages i...

The Accused (1988), Sociological Perspective

This essay pertain to "The Accused," a 1988 film that focuses on a raped woman and trauma she suffers due to the criminal justice ...

Father: Smoke Signals

Victor, angry and in the company of his friend Thomas, arrives at the place his father lived and meets Suzy Song. Suzy Song demons...

Danny Zuko From The Movie Grease

for constant friendship and status both in the group and in the school. The group gives each member protection from being alone an...

We Were Soldiers/Historical Accuracy of Film

back first one North Vietnamese assault, then another, over a period of six days."i In writing about the film, co-author of We W...

Education: “Good Will Hunting” and “I Just Wanna Be Average” by Mike Rose

Wanna Be Average" the writer illustrates how his high school years were filled with being educated in a school where he was mistak...